International

World News. 19^th October
A total of 2.2 million adverts have been rejected by Facebook and Instagram because they were trying to stop people from voting in the US election.   They were pushing out false information.    Also another 15 million posts were labelled false even though they were posted.  It looks like many countries and agents are trying to interfere in the US election to make people uncertain about the voting.
Trump is continuing to make false claims about everyone who is not supporting him.  He even says that they should all be locked up.  He is going against all the guidance about the virus and holding rallies where people have no masks.  He is already claiming that the Democrats will destroy the suburbs of cities and that women must vote for him as he is doing such a wonderful job for them.  His insults just get worse and worse.Do you know anything about Alibaba?  Not the one in the story about forty thieves….. Alibaba is largest tech  and online selling company in China and is like Amazon in the USA.  It controls a huge empire of buying and selling.  It has now taken over the largest supermarket chain in China.  Chinese customers can now order food as well as other goods and get them delivered in one and a half hours.  They also sell to customers in the West (and UK) and help Chinese companies to find customers to buy their Chinese products.  You may not know them by name but you have probably had goods online through Alibaba.
UK Government is starting a new campaign called “Time is running out”.  This sounds bad but it is to tell companies to get ready for Britain leaving the EU.  There are only just over 70 days before UK is not part of the EU at all.  Companies are not ready and while the virus is everywhere they have not had time to think about all the new forms and customs rules that will have to be in place.  UK Government is still blaming the EU and says that it has to change